The Best Loadouts for Field Ordnance Battery | 10th Edition | Astra Militarum Tactics 

The Bombast is by far my first choice but I wouldn't cross out the Lascannons 🤔. Setting up a nest with two teams would be my choice.

I never understood why the Malleus rocket doesn't have indirect. I mean come on GW we both know its a nebelwerfer!

The mortar variant of the field batteries look like Lego stud launchers

In this episode, Mordian tells us what we already knew. All jokes aside, it is important to have a proper breakdown of any choice, even if it is a foregone conclusion.

A video of Mordian reviewing an artillery unit is just the best way to start the week!

I built mine with one field gun and one lascannon and it’s weirdly worked out alright. The lascannon sits in line of sight and threatens lanes, and the field gun shoots at anything and take wounds for the lascannon. Having said this it’s obviously not the most optimal set up, it’s just happened to work for me. Also it needs to at least go back to 100 points, maybe even 90-95 since you also need to buy an officer to make it work

I’ll say this the bombast feels great and looks very bolt action. The rockets do as well so this unit gets a sound rating of BANZAI !!

My son got the Christmas Battlebox, a Leman Rus and a FOB box for Christmas. We build it with the bombast just because it looked the coolest and also because I couldn't be bothered magnatising it after magnetising two Rogals and the Rus. He is loving his first army, and had already got two victories under his belt (crushing my Nidz and them just beating my CSM).

Would love to hear your take on a more in-depth list of all the guard Artillery's/ field guns ranked up. Heavy weapons/ mortar teams, basilisks, FoB, Carriage Batterys, ect. I know the debate is classically just Manticores vs Basilisks, but in a way they're all competing for the same slot.

Thank you for explaining this! I am new to warhammer and got the astra militarum combat patrol, but I have no idea what the little symbols mean. Your video explained it very well and now I can make an informed decision on what gun to build

2x fobs with Ursula giving orders and a scout setinel plus free Stratagem to one of the guns this has served me well in the past. All this on a home objective while the rest does its job

Great video man! I followed your other video for a beginner army and bought three Cadia stands boxes and a Christmas box. So knowing how to kit these out is nice to know.

I must say, the new MG style with the nice screen and visuals explaining what you're saying is very nice and makes your videos so much more watchable/enjoyable

I literally just finished painting mine!!! The faces are.... rough... but they are painted. That and I magnetized them, so i can swap between all the load outs!!

I disagree. You would take the field guns for indirect fire and damage two attacks. In that case, why not just bring a basilisk? 15 more points for S8 ap-2 better toughness, wounds, movement and BS. Averaging about the same number of shots. The bombast is second class in its own role. Bring the malleus for volume or the heavy las for strength.

I do believe each weapon has its place. I played the combat patrol event and I was the only guard player and a lot of players were extremely surprised by the firepower of the Maleaus Rocket Launcher and after it roared to life it was targeted heavily, after they thought they got rid of what they thought was the only artillery I had left the forgot the Field Gun and for the rest of the game they couldn’t do anything about it while it continued to inflict pain.

Love the channel. Just starting to get back into 40 K again. Your videos have inspired me to start up as guard. As well as The bombast guns. The models look amazing! I’ve already brought myself two combat patrol boxes using your link Thank you. For one of your future videos, could you please do all the guard attack planes Like Thunderbolt heavy fighter, Voss-pattern Lightning, Vulture gunship. Noticed you had two in your Scion army. Were they the best choice for anti-tank/Monster?Or is there a better choice if you had the points? Haven’t seen a dedicated video to aircraft where is the plane Love ✈️💕 Keep up making the brilliant content. There isn’t anyone else on RU-vid who makes watching Warhammer videos so entertaining. you crack me up!😂

And the cherry on the cake is that it can also stack with the scout sentinel buff, hitting on 3+

All 3 have advantages, and reasons to take. I would put the field gun at the top, A str 14 lascannon can come in handy when T13 is afoot, but there are other S14+ things in the army. Sometimes there is a ton of light infantry afoot. Field gun is that more middle ground. Every enemy can use a little field gun fire, some enemies don't require a Str14, or the lighter blast. The field gun, and the rocket launcher are too close to each other to give them both indirect. rockets would have to drop to str4 for that to make sense The 2 of them can struggle to get LoS with their giant base

what points do you think the fob should be ? i would use this if it was 100 points but at 120 just can never justify it.... such a shame because i love love the model

Love you mordian. Any more scion stuff coming up in the pipeline?

If Malleus Rockets had indirect, I'd 100% use them over Bombast. Right now, I run 2 field ordinance batteries. All four are Bombast Cannons. With Ursula and two scout sentinels to support them.

I fucking love artillery

I'd put a couple of the heavy las guns and a malius behind an aegis line giving them a 4+ invul. 12 wounds with a 4+ invul is closer to 21 wounds on average. Three of these and the line is 445 points, a total of 36 wounds of guns with 4+ invul and the wall wounds which prevent t1 charges, with 48" of range you can shoot from one board edge to the other and place them in the open so they can cover an objective or two. Add on that they have the regiment keyword which means they're valid targets for reinforcements.

rn my artillery in a 1000 point army is a manticore, group of mortars and field ordiinance battery with bombast field guns, i love recreating vimmy ridge

It's so dependant on terrain i find. I've had games where both the heavy las and rockets destroyed and shreded their favored foes hard because they could see across huge sightlines from my backfield and my opponent could not fire back early on. But then there are games where the terrain is not favorable and they can't see anything so you have to move them... but they are super slow and won't hit anything then! So yeah for consistency sake use the field gun, as much as it pains me because getting 4 heavy las shots with 2 exploding lethal and punching 14 wounds into a knight turn 1 is certaintly a great feeling.

Since I have a box of cadia stands, and im trying to make my guard project relatively small and as low-budget as possible, i plan to make them work. The rockets look cool, but the bombast seems most iconic. Plus i could steal the rockets for chaos havoc launchers 😅

I like the idea of the las cannon. However I have four Bombast field guns. I wantedna know if you think it's better or worse than Earth shaker carriages.

It may just be my meta in my local group but my double heavy lascannon battery is my main anti-tank. Always give it "Take Aim!". That means 4 shots with Sustained Hits 1 and Lethal Hits, hitting on 3s. Don't forget to spot with that Scout Sentinel and you're rerolling 1s. I've stripped 20 wounds off a Knight in one shooting phase with it. I take two batteries. Double Heavy Lascannon, and double Bombast. With the same rules I routinely get 2d6+8 shots against 20 man horde units. The results are what you would think...

I had assumed they all had indirect fire, so now I've got 2 heavy lascannons and 1 rocket launcher Fortunately I still have 3bfgs

It's ok I would only take it after maxing out heavy weapons squads. Mortar best artillery

I like the idea and the model for the Ordnance Battery, especially the Field Gun, but at 120pts I'm really not sure what it's bringing that I wouldn't get for 2 Mortar Squads or a Mortar Squad and another Infantry Squad? Feel like it needs to be a bit cheaper, and/or a little stronger (maybe -2AP? Though more than a couple of improvements and it would be as deadly as a Basilisk). I definitely want to include them, but they feel bloody expensive for the rather modest amount of damage they do.

I run a set of lascannons and a set of field guns. Since i have 0 armor, i instead opt for so many small threats instead of 1 major one. Set the lascannons up so they have clear line of sight on a major lane or an objective i know will be tough and just leave them be. The howitzers are pretty good middle of the road stuff like you said, but havent really done much for me so far, just some nice crowd control

What about the earth shaker carriage and medusa carriage?! Let's hear your take on those!

I really want the tauros to come back and have field ordinace battery weapons mounted on the back as fast moving technicals someday

Vs a 4 or smaller gravis. Missiles kill slightly more than 1 marine on average. (1.1 ish) Mortar kills less than one on average (around 2.7 average wounds.) Though both on average fail to kill a single custode the missile launcher again wins on damage. Vs a land raider the missile launcher also does more damage. Only vs toughness seven models with more than 1 wound (say, scout sentinels or terminator custodes) does the bombard out damage the missile launcher without bonus shots from blast. So basically it's only custode terminators, scout sentinels, or if some mad lad is bringing 10 man gravis squads, that mortar will do more damage. I still agree indirect fire is enough to make the mortar better since fob is made of paper as much as heavy weapon teams. But still don't sleep on missiles. Edit: On the heavy lascannon. I again did the math. For points it only beats heavy weapons teams with las cannons for damage versus exactly toughness 13 targets. The +1 at t12/t7/t14 is not enough to swing the 50% lower fire rate per point (6 shots vs 4.) So unless you're taking baneblade or really want to use hwt overwatch I'd highly consider using hwt for anti tank over fob

Assuming I've not made any mistakes, the bombast field gun can hit on a 2+ against targets it cannot see. Counter indirect fire by using a scout sentinel to ignore it completly and gain reroll 1s, so even in cover having moved its a 5+ to hit with a second chance. Then Expert Bombadiers stratagem on the target for a +1 to hit roll, now on a 4+. Add on Heavy to get it on 3+. Take Aim command for 2+ to hit, reroll 1s, all while in cover. Have the command squad nearby for the sustained hits. Suddenly you have auto wound and extra hits on a 6, with most every shot landing. Throw in an autocanon russ for ap-2 and even custodes and their 4+ invul are scared.

Hi Mordian! This video is not in the 10th Edition Tactics Playlist. Great info, btw

Bring 4 pieces, 3 bombast, 1 malleus. Leave the malleus on the home objective.

I noticed it said ap -3 for las cannon on the datasheet but looking at the combat patrol Lego instructions it says ap -4, anyone know which is more up to date?

I'm a big arty fan, if the arty has indirect fire. does the arty has scatter with indirect in this version or not, and if, does being stationary counters it?

I think to make all 3 viable the Malleus just needs the indirect fire rule but the lascannons need a stats buff. Currently its just worse than the same points of lascannon HWTs. An extra AP and D3+3 dmg might do it.

hmm...guess i can slap grand strategist onto one of the command squads and think these bombasts do seem like they would be pretty efficient against infantry with all those shots but a manticore platform is pretty much ready to go for 95 points and its s10 does give you a bit more versatility against tougher targets when you need it...may have to experiment with both...

3 field ordinance batteries, all 6 with bombast. Scout sentinels in the field to spot, lord solar with his 3 commands for all 3 field ordinance batteries with take aim and i leave them stationary no matter what. Hitting on 3+ and its working great so far.

I will say while it’s not the most durable unit they pack a hell of a punch and can be brought back with reinforcements so sure the direct fire versions might only get a shot or 2 off before dying you can just bring them back and put them in a spot with better shots.

as far as the lascannons i think rapiers are more efficient. you could have like 3 and a half of them for the price of 2 heavy lascannons and they have twin linked.

I've still yet to see them being used in 10th

4:30 pokeball arm icons?

Was wishing I had 2 bomblasts. Not sure the combat patrol gave that option although I may be wrong. My naivity means i currently have a bombast and a galleous built.

If GW want to buff this unit in the next codex, I think a good buff would be to give it a 2+ save against shooting. I mean the gun has a huge blast shield !

so baffling why the rocket launcher isn't indirect.

Bombast so i can use the model in bolt action lol

Only bombast field gun Nothing else

I made mine as a malleus because I assumed that was the indirect option, nonsense that the bombast is supposed to be shooting indirect, goofy cannon looking boi

I miss videos like this where he talks like a normal fucking person.